The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-12
A scANDALOUs SPECTACLE.

The proceedings in and about the Senate
chamber yesterday were simply outrageous
and damnable. The corridors about the en-
frances to the chamber and galleries were sur
rounded BIZ Democratic DULLES and ruffians,
of whom quite a considerable number were
members of the Democratic Metropolitan po-
lice force of this city. Some Of them were in
citizens clothes, but several were in their full
dress of police on duty. Whenever before
were the police of this city called into such
services The ante-rooms and cloak-rooms of
the Senate chamber were also supplied with
like guards and blackguards. No one could
gain admission to the galleries Of the cham
Der, much less to the floor without passing
through this gang of roughs and bruisers. No
one was admitted except he or she had to run
the gauntlet of as uncivilized and brutal a
crowd as could be found in an Indian
States Senator, representing the State of In
diana was denied admission to the Senate
chamber of the State. The Clerk of the House
of Representatives, bearing an official message
of the passage of a bill by the
House, was twice denied admission or
hearing Green Smith, the wild-eyed
steer from Jennings county, walked
up to and around upon the Pres
idents chair like coyote on picket
Bludgeons and pistols were on every hand,
and for whatg To protect the THIRTY one
grave and able-bodied Democratic Senators
from the apprchended assaults of the nine
teen Republican Senators. NTanifestly the
thirty-one were afraid the nineteen would
surround them, and carry them off into
some of the secret recesses and cham
| them away forever The Senate Chamber
and its ante-rooms have been guarded day and
night, since before the session began, by
armed men, lest Lieutenant-governor Robert
son would, at some unexpected moment, slip
in ana bodily carry of the Senator'S and even
the Senate hall itself, like Samson carried
| away the gates of GAIA. The terror and the
bloody sweat that these thirty one Senators
| have endured for the past few days can only
beimagined The nineteen Republican Sen
ators, headed by Acknowledgements Robert
son, have been to them giants in armor by day
and specters in blood-red by night. They
would not down; sleeping or waking, the
| thirty one were in mortal dread
| "'Tis conscience makes towards of Us ALL "
| No one has even threatened them. There has
never been day AN hour, or even minute,
when Colonel Robertson or his friends, or the
terrible nineteen, intended any force or vio-
lence. If the thirty-one Senators will just
stop their shaking and their quaking long
enough to hear, they would be told that the
Republican Senators and Lieutenant governor
Robertson will give bond not to touch hurt
or modest, the brave and gallant thirty-one
during the next sixty days, or for that mat
ter during their natural lives
If the thirty-one grave and dignifed Demo
cratic Senators will not accept the assurances
of the Journal that they shall not be
molested or hurt in person, then, no doubt
| Speaker Sayre would Con request) send owe,
the four pages of the House to protect them,
and they will be ample guard against any at
tempts by Republicans. If the thirty one
have not sense enough to out-vote the nine
teen on party questions, it is no fault Of the
/ nj rataau